linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add warnings for use of mdelay()

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 07:49:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <pheragu@...eaurora.org>,
        apw@...onical.com, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ckadabi@...eaurora.org,
        tsoni@...eaurora.org, bryanh@...eaurora.org,
        Israel Schlesinger <israels@...eaurora.org>,
        Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@...eaurora.org>,
        baijiaju1990@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add warnings for use of mdelay()



On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Neither Smatch nor Coccinelle do a good job tracking when you're in
> atomic context.  I've wanted to add this to Smatch but even then it
> would be to warn that "We're holding a spinlock so we can't sleep".
> It's trickier to say for sure when you're not holding a lock...

Jia-Ju Bai is working on this.  The tool is available on github.  It's
still being improved, though, so perhaps it's not yet ready for eg 0-day
inclusion.  He can give more details.

julia